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DAY 1
WEDNESDAY, 21 APRIL 2021, 2.30PM START (AEST)
Australian Eastern Standard Time (Melbourne, Victoria, UTC +10)
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PLENARY 1: STARTS AT 2.30PM
WELCOME
DR LOIS PEELER AM Traditional Welcome to Country
HOLGER KNAACK Welcome from the Rotary International President
PRESIDENT MARION MACLEOD Welcome from Rotary Melbourne
ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR TILMAN RUFF AO Founding chair of the International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons (ICAN), the first Australian-born Nobel Peace Prize Laureate
SETSUKO THURLOW Nuclear disarmament campaigner who survived the bombing of Hiroshima
DR EMMA LESLIE AM Executive Director, Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies Cambodia
FACILITATOR LED Q&A DISCUSSIONS
PLENARY 1: ENDS AT 4.05PM
CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS: STARTS AT 4.15PM
Select ONE of the three concurrent workshops below to join.
After the presentations, there will be a panel discussion with audience Q&A.
WORKSHOP 1: 4.15PM
Indigenous Reconciliation
Workshop Moderator
Robert McGuirk
Speakers
Ian Hamm Chair Board of Directors First Nations Foundation
Nerita Waight Chief Executive Officer Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service
Dr Neville White Emeritus Scholar, La Trobe University
WORKSHOP 2: 4.15PM
Family Violence
Workshop Moderator
Superintendent Andrew Miles Family Violence Command, Victoria Police
Speakers
Associate Professor Troy McEwan Swinburne Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science
Assistant Commissioner Lauren Callaway Family Violence Command, Victoria Police
Dorothy Gilmour Rotary Melbourne & Rotary Safe Families
WORKSHOP 3: 4.15PM
Economics and Peace
Workshop Moderator
Charlie Allen Director of Partnerships Institute for Economics and Peace
Speakers
Steve Killelea AM Founder, Institute for Economics and Peace
Michael Hitz Director, Institute for Economics and Peace
Tony Stuart CEO, UNICEF Australia
WORKSHOP SESSION: ENDS AT 5.15PM
PLENARY 2: STARTS AT 5.20PM
Launch of the Peacebuilding Initiative from the University of Melbourne
PROFESSOR DUNCAN MASKELL Vice-Chancellor, University of Melbourne
PROFESSOR JOHN LANGMORE AM Professorial Fellow, Melbourne School of Government Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne
DR TANIA MILETIC Assistant Director, Initiative for Peacebuilding / Centre for Peacebuilding Faculty of Arts, University of Melbourne
MS KATHY KLUGMAN Deputy Secretary, Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade
PLENARY 2 & DAY 1 ENDS AT 5.30PM
DAY 2
Thursday, 22 APRIL 2021, 9.30AM START (AEST)
Australian Eastern Standard Time (Melbourne, Victoria, UTC +10)
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PLENARY 3: STARTS AT 9.30AM
RAVI RAVINDRAN Welcome by Rotary Foundation Chair of Trustees
JOSÉ RAMOS-HORTA AC Nobel Laureate, Former President of East Timor
NATASCHA HRYCKOW Coordinator UN Panel of Experts on Somalia & Geneva Centre for Security Policy Global Fellow.
FACILITATOR LED Q&A DISCUSSIONS
PLENARY 3: ENDS AT 10.50AM
CONCURRENT WORKSHOPS: STARTS AT 11.00AM
Select ONE of the three concurrent workshops below to join.
After the presentations, there will be a panel discussion with audience Q&A.
WORKSHOP 4: 11.00AM
Humanity & Humanitarian Aid
Workshop Moderator
Kirsten Sayers RedR Australia CEO
Speakers
Barnaby Caddy Australia Assists Deployee RedR Australia
Natascha Hrychow Coordinator UN Panel of Experts on Somalia & GCSP Global Fellow
Anggie Burchill Australia Assist Deployee RedR Australia, Rotary Peace Fellow
WORKSHOP 5: 11.00AM
Business & Human Rights
Workshop Moderator
Dr Jonathan Kolieb Peace and Conflict Lead Business and Human Rights Centre, RMIT University
Speakers
Kylie Porter Executive Director, United Nations Global Compact Network Australia
Keren Adams Legal Director Human Rights Law Centre
Associate Professor Shelley Marshall Director, RMIT Business and Human Rights Centre
Phoebe Wynn-Pope Head of Business & Human Rights, Corrs Chambers Westgarth
WORKSHOP 6: 11.00AM